Improved washing-machine for waste



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WILLIAM F. WITTE, OF WHITEMARSH, ASSIGNOR TO GHARLES ROBBINS,

- OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 107 ,430, datecl ;September 13, 187 O.

IMPROVEDWASHING--MACHINE FR WASTE, &0.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Pate'nt and making part of the same.

I, WILLIAM F. XVITTE, of Whitemarsh, in the' county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvenents in Machines for Tashing and Cleausing Waste, and other fabrics, of' which the following is the specification. i

Nature anLObjects of 'the Iwention.

` chine for removing the oil' and dirt from the waste fabric used in machine-shopsand 'ailway-depots, and

for washing or cleansing other fabrics in aj more thorough and expeditions manner than heretofore;

Description of the Acconwanytg Dmwing;

Fig'ure 1 is an end clevation of my said improved machine, having the fronting endof the 'eciprocatiug box removed, for the purpose of showing the interior thereof.

Figure 2' is a vertical longitudiual section of the same machine, on thedotted line :e y of fig. 1.

General Description.

A is an upright frame, which is erected across a suitable platform, a', having a track-rail, a", fixed along in its middle.

At 'a short distance above the platform, the roller B is support-ed on strong journals, which have their berings in the two uprights of the frame A, and fixed ou one of the journals is a pinion, b'. v

The vessel for containing thefabric to he cleansed is an oblong rectangular box, O, which is arranged to` puss freely backward and forward longitudinaliy' between the two uprights of the frame, whilebearing muinly upon the roller B, its two cnds being'kept up or nearly to the same height by means of a grooved wheel, c', under each, which. rolls upon the track a".

Along the bottomedgc of one side of the box C- a rock-bur, c", is fixed, which gcars into the pinion b' of the roller B, so that longitudinally-reciprocating motions will be given to the box G by rotating the roller B alternately in opposite directions. i 4 The beaters D D are arranged and supported to slide freely np and down, in a, line across the-bottom of the box, directly above the roller B. Motion is given to the beaters successively by means of respective lifting-toes e' e', fixed on the crank-shaft E, whereby, as the toes are carried around, the beaters are suceessively lifted up and let fall upon that part of thebotton of the box G which is supported, directly by the roller B. The operation of the machine is as follows The fabric to be washed and cleansed is placed on the bottom of 'the box A, with a sufficiency of water, and, if desred, any suitable alkaline salt or soap, and simnltaneous motion then gi'ven to the box and the beaters, 'so that, as the box is moved along backward and forward, the beaters fali snccessivclyand rapidly upon the fahric, from end to end of the box, the roller B supporting that part of the bottom of the box which is directly under the beaters.

Steam power is intended to "be applied 'to operate the large machines required for washing and cleaning the oily waste fab-ic ot machine-shops and railwaylocomotive Stations.

twill be understood, without further description, that the beaters D I) will operate upon every part of A the fa-bric distributed over the bottom of the box O,

and with aneffectiveness proportioned to their weight,

and that, as the roller B will always` support that part.

of the bottom of the box which is passing under the beaters, the momentum of the lat-ter will be prevcnted, by the said roller, from injuring the said box.

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I claim as my iuvention- The horizontally-reciprooating .box C and supporting roller' B, in combination with the series of verti cally-moving beaters I), the said parts being arranged to opcrate together, substantially as and for thepurpo'se hereinbefore set forth.

W. F. WITTE.

Witnesses:

BENJ. MoRIsoN, WM. H. Momsox. 

